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A Botanical Life: Robert David Fitzgerald by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Robert David Fitzgerald (1830-1892) was a successful colonial surveyor who had arrived in Australia in 1856 as a young Irish immigrant of 25. He was employed by the Lands Department in New South Wales and, although he was an exemplary public servant, he was also one of the last of the Victorian-era gent ...Show more
Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
Australia's First Naturalists: The Importance of Indigenous People to Early Zoological Collectors (PB) by Penny Olsen; Lynette Russell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Indigenous Peoples' Contribution to Early Zoology
Would Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson have ever crossed the Blue Mountains without the help of the local Aboriginal people? The invaluable role of local guides in this event is rarely recognised. As silent partners, Aboriginal Australians gave Europeans their first views of iconic animals, such as the Ko ...Show more
Cayley and Son: The Life and Art of Neville Henry Cayley and Neville William Cayley by Penny Olsen
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
The classic field guide What Bird Is That? has been known to bird enthusiasts throughout Australia for decades, ever since it was first published in 1931. It was written and illustrated by Neville William Cayley (18861950), son of artist Neville Henry Cayley (18541903) who, before him, had also had drea ...Show more
Collecting Ladies: Women Botanical Illustrators and Ferdinand Von Mueller by Penny Olsen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for 'lady' plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of frien ...Show more
Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art by Penny Olsen
$69.99 AUD
Category: Animals/Natural History
Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia — from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today. It explores the early European approach, in which naval draughtsmen, officers, convicts, settlers, n ...Show more
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